Michele Westmorland Present-day inhabitants of Vonavona in The Solomon Islands paddle a traditional 45-foot-long war canoe. Propelled by nine men on each side and elaborately decorated ...

World War II, the most devastating conflict in ... When a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit the Solomon Islands in 2023, the locals were petrified by an unprecedented occurrence of oil blubbering ...

Saltwater pooled in parts of the village, which is on Fanalei Island, an ever-shrinking speck of land that is part of the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific. They paddled out in wooden canoes ...

The islands scattered ... first drew these canoe people eastwards into the ocean. By 1500 B.C., these voyagers began moving east beyond New Guinea, first along the Solomon Island chain, and ...